Most cis sportswomen have naturally elevated “masculine” hormones. Trans women see many physical changes (like fat redistribution and changes in muscle n fat mass) after commencing hormone therapy. Therefore, the “advantage” that they have over cis women is negligible. It is in fact comparable to the advantage that some cis women have over other cis women (the hormone thing that I mentioned in my first sentence).

But no, being assholes towards trans people is cool, and there clearly aren’t other issues to worry about. /s

I’ve no idea how stating this is relevant to the conversation

Perfectly written!

Calling it, Sol is a Sith. He was Qimirs master, then Qimir somehow left (yes: somehow, Qimir left!) and Sol has been trying to convert another Padawan to his cause ever since.

Now that would be a hell of a twist! Qimir is clearly not the master. He still feels a lot weaker than what I expect a full on Sith Master to be like. Also, he says that he wants a pupil instead of an apprentice. I expect the actual Sith Master to be revealed at the end. It would be really cool if it was Sol himself.

Also, see how Qimir killed all Jedi that saw his face but didn’t really run behind Sol much? I dunno…

Maybe it’s someone who just happened to be hanging around

Yea yea, the potions guy ikik… I was talking more in terms of the name. The Sith name that is. I’ve seen ppl say “Qimir” quite a lot.

I’m more interested in seeing him kill a couple of the unnamed Jedi. Hopefully they handle it better then the first fight scene.

Oh I’m definitely expecting that to happen. I rlly doubt any Jedi is getting out of there alive including Sol. Sol did the cliche “I’ll tell u what happened when we get back”, and then dying.

The Sith? fellow clearly is eyeing for Osha. Maybe he manipulates her by re-emphasising the lie that Mae killed her family? Perhaps trapping her into sunk cost by making her kill Mae?

WHAT AN EPISODE!!!

Episode 4 was absolutely amazing! The acting has improved (the conversations between Osha and the padawan girl felt incredibly natural). And do I need to talk about the ending?

SPOLIERS AHEAD

How was the Sith? guy at the end so fkin powerful lol. One flick and he can send everything flying away? Jeeez… Also, is this guy Mae’s friend? Uk, the one accompanying her everywhere. Would explain how he got there so fast. Also, what is his motivation to set Mae up? Does he just want to kill a few Jedi? Does he want to turn Osha to the dark side or something (uk, after seeing how he eyed her and didn’t kill her)? Isn’t Osha actually weaker in the force when compared to Mae? I’ve so many questions lol. Also, props to the designers of this character! His mask is SO CREEPY.

Really can’t wait for the coming episodes.

Oh yeah… I srsly wonder who the Sith? master is lol

I’m sure there’s some, but most of the criticism seems to come from people who just straight-forwardly aren’t enjoying the show as much as you.

I hope that’s the case. Honestly, I got triggered this morning by watching Star Wars Theory’s reaction to it. I was looking at his chat which was saying things like, “not a single man in sight…”, some homophobic stuff, and just incredibly toxic shit about how “woke” the entire thing was.

I really liked the ascension scene and wanted to share a YouTube link of it with my mum (wanted to show here how they utilized Indian classical music beautifully there). All videos that I came across were just about how “wokeness killed star wars”, “how we must rescue star wars from wokeness” and stuff like that.

If something is supposed to be cringe, it’s up to the creators to find a way to indicate that to the audience, otherwise it’s taken at face value.

Perhaps. I think we’re just in the “are the curtains blue because the artist wanted to show a depressed environment or is it just because the artist liked the color blue” system. Andor’s expression was very explicit (which is not bad of course. It’s just a style of expression). I think Acolyte’s expression is a bit more implicit.

Again, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Not liking Acolyte because of plot and stuff like that is alright. But not liking simply because it’s “woke” is just fkin infuriating.

Man the Star Wars fanbase is shit. SO INCREDIBLY TOXIC JEEEEZ. The people here on Lemmy seem to be waaay more chill tho. I absolutely LOVED episode 3. The music (which many found cringe for some reason) is what I loved the most honestly. The ascension scene was ART imo. I genuinely don’t get the hate for this show.

A note about the ascension scene: When the leader witch says, “we were at the brink of extinction”, one of the witches does that crazy maniacal witch laughter. I was weirded out a little in the beginning as to why she would do that. But when you think about it a little, this is exactly what the witches are. They’re different and weird, which is why they were ostracized by society and hunted down (as per the show). I see them as that cringe group of students that are present in every classroom. The others find them cringe, but they are actually very chill people. Unfortunately, because of their so called “cringeness”, they are bullied a lot.

As for the ending, OF COURSE the twin didn’t burn the fortress down on her own. That is LITERALLY what the first two episodes were about lmao. Why would the 10 year long meditation Jedi guy commit suicide then? Why would the other dark twin (forgot if it was May or Osha) go on a hunting spree against these particular Jedi?

Are people hating this show just because it is “woke” or something? Like… the witches aren’t even actual lesbians. Like… you can’t have homosexuality if heterosexuality doesn’t exist, right? It would just be… sexuality sexuality I suppose. I genuinely can’t see how this thing was “woke”. Or was it because the leader witch was black or something? Would people get upset about that NOW? Come on…

I also loved the leader witch… I think the actress portrayed her role very well! She definitely gave off those comforting motherly vibes…

Cue screeching tankie noises

Holy shit yeah! Come on ppl… Why waste time engaging with a clear dumass

bUt OcToBeR 7th… ThAt ChAnGeD eVeRyThInG!!! /s

Agreed. The US, UK and the imperialist fascist west bombed this ship and sunk it /s

Wasn’t he the one to come out in support of homosexuality? Or was it just to justify the morality behind diddling little boys?

Dude… Social progress for the LGBTQ community has been exponential. U were talking about the trans community. Look at the number of people feeling safe enough to come out as trans in the past five years. The dramatically rising numbers have led to an equally strong pushback from the conservatives. This however will subside. We have seen this happen in case of the gays as well. Look at how closed stuff was during decriminalization and marriage recognition (which was just 10-20 years around the world).

I for instance would have never ever ever thought of being able to come out as gay back in school. In fact, in India, it was criminalized at the time. Don’t get me wrong- homophobia is still very rampant in India. However, it’s decreasing at unimaginable rates.

There aren’t that many bad people as social media would lead us to believe. People change. Their ideas change. So uk… Have hope I suppose.

Naah u just know more. Social progress has been happening exponentially around the world.

Np :)

It’s very different. Here, the government can deny this if it believes that one of the partners are being “coerced”. Now this is where context matters. There is a conspiracy theory in the Indian far right called “Love Jihad”, where Muslims are allegedly marrying Hindu women with the sole purpose of converting them to their religion to lower the number of Hindus in India. Interfaith marriages have even been banned in some northern states. This is to take that ban even further, where relationships involving partners of different faiths would be deemed “coercive”. Sooooo yeah…

Boom, you got it sire!

Yea baybeee! One of the best Star Wars productions ever! Can’t wait for it to hit my favourite streaming site - PirateBay!